Don't you wonder why the new law assisting the formation of more public charter schools has a provision that "prohibits reprisals against district employees who are involved in an application to establish a public charter school"? Our state legislators must have met Superintendent Nancy McGinley!
Charter schools now may be single sex. Institutions of higher learning (such as the College of Charleston and the Citadel) may decide to organize their own charter schools. Charter school students who wish to play a sport not offered at their charter school can participate at the school in their residential district. Virtually everything needed has been added, except additional funding.
All of these schools take away power from local elected school boards and the edublob and give it to independent charter boards and parents. Given the bootlicking behavior of CCSD's board majority, is it any wonder that charter schools are so popular?
Between those and on-line education, expect to see multi-million-dollar white elephant school buildings in CCSD in about two decades.
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Does any of this really apply to Charleston County? I've been told as long as the CCSD Board majority upholds the superintendent's moratorium against approving any new charter schools, the district effectively circumvents state law. Is this correct?
New charter schools do not have to go through the district; only those that do are affected by her moratorium.
But is this moratorium against approving any more local charter school even legal? It looks like a way to just sidestep state law. Hopefully the state superintendent will see this for what it is.
It would be nice if when Burke and North Charleston high schools come up for review this summer, after the district's chronic failure to turn these schools around, the state would do something refreshingly different. The state board should act decisively by finally taking both schools out of the hands of the local district. The state should just turn the high schools over to their communities. Let the parents and the two communities make the tough calls for a change. The record shows the superintendent and the district aren't making any real progress.
Both schools and the communities that support them might then have a much better chance to succeed if they were given the same local control they would have with a charter.
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